Cal Trop Med

Tropical Diseases

There are various infections today that are seen as tropical diseases. But historically, these were the diseases that only affected people in extremely cold climates or perhaps temperate areas (the regions between tropic and polar circles). Diseases typical of this are: hookworm infections (which probably infect more than 600 million people around the world) and malaria (mosquito-borne infectious disease which is contracted by mosquito bites). As well, there is the rare lagochilascaris minor disease (but as yet there has only been one fatality reported from this, so it really is extremely rare).

A lot of these tropical diseases in today’s modern world are really not an issue due to major advancements in health and sanitations, personal hygiene and diet. As well, today these diseases – if they do occur – are not climate-controlled so there has been talk of renaming Tropical Diseases to Geographic Medicine or even Third World Medicine.

Inset Column Widgets

Welcome to the Inset Column for the Evening Shade theme. As some people like to have a third column sidebar, the Inset column will provide you with that option which you can also disable anytime you want from the theme settings.

Right Column Widgets

Welcome to the Right Column for the Evening Shade theme. You can put a variety of widgets in this location and to manage where they are published in your site, you can download the Widget logic plugin.